Week in Review

Its been a bit since my update. Well, not really. Let me start off by praising Penny Arcade with their friday comic. http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic Sums up the whole Playstation Store. Its a wee bit more tedious than it should be. I still sorta approve of what they done with it so far. Its not bad, but could be better. They released Tekken 5 for download. I must say that its worth the $20. Its pretty and you get alot of content. The fighters and backgrounds are gorgeous, but I bet Tekken 6 will blow it away when it comes out.

DDR Universe released this last week for the 360. It was supposed to be in stores on wednesday. Well, Gamestop decided to 2-day it to the stores leaving me with an empty wednesday. Nuh-uh. I drove my tucchas to Best Buy and picked it up wednesday morning. Didn't quite feel like waiting an extra day for my Universe. I waited a whole year, so what would another day to? I dunno. I just had to have it wednesday i guess. So how is it? Well, I have to say its pretty good. The default settings have the backgrounds at blinding brightness. That can be turned down though. The song list is good. The dance steps are very good. The quest mode is kinda lame. You have to go city to city to dance in various challenges. Along the way you have to hire back up dancers for extra points and buy movie and sound clips. It sounds strange but all this stuff helps you in dance battles. Without these things, good luck. The manual is kinda crappy and doesn't explain much about the quest mode. Neither does the on screen instructions. Its kinda guess and go as to what happens. The good or bad (depending on how you look at it) thing is that Quest mode can potentially last for many months as you unlock more and more songs and stuff. The coolest part of the game so far for me is the calorie and step counter. Keeps track of how many calories burned and steps completed. Always fun to look at after a hard day on stage.

In other dancing news, my buddy, Steve upgraded his DDR machine to an In The Groove 2 board. He is a compter/arcade techie. He knows his stuff. He hacked the ITG board to play every single DDR song ever made plus thousands of fan made songs from Stepmania. Good God! He has about 3200+ songs on there. No joke. This thing is absolutely awesome. Its got songs from Family Guy, anime, Nintendo, and more. I was over there today and played for a good 2 hours. Makes my Supernova machine look like a 486 PC. He is getting me into the Stepmania process. I can eventually put thousands of songs on my own PC or laptop and hook up my Ignition pad with the USB port.